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• The following version of this poem was used to create this Lesson Plan: Williams, William Carlos. "The Red Wheelbarrow." Poetry Foundation. Web.

• The poem consists of 16 words arranged into eight lines, creating a single, enjambed sentence.

• The sentence of the poem lacks both punctuation and capitalization.

• The eight lines are grouped into four free-verse stanzas.

• The first line of each stanza consists of three words and a total of three or four syllables, and the second line consists of a single two-syllable word.

• The poem centers on three observable items: a red wheelbarrow, rainwater, and some white chickens.

• The red wheelbarrow is mentioned first, and then the poem notes that it is wet with rainwater, and finally the poem places chickens next to the wheelbarrow.

• In order to preserve the poem's form, the compound words "rainwater" and "wheelbarrow" are split into their...

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